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Why is Part A of this Activity called “Preparing a Dry Mount”? Why is Part B of this Activity called “Preparing a Wet Mount of Cells”? Explain the difference between wet and dry mount preparation. Part A is called Preparing a Dry Mount and part B is called Preparing a Wet Mount of Cells in this activity. Part A used a paper letter “e”, a paper is a solid dry object like dust particles or a feather. Part B, we used onions, blue methylene and water. It's called a “Wet Mount” since we used a…

Phonesian’s economy was based off of different items special to their homeland. They traded and used coins made of many types of metal. Phoenicians participated in three different types of trading. They exported materials, mostly cedar, from their homeland in Lebanon. They earned transport and middleman fees from the process of shipping items, like silver and controlled supply markets in the places they were in charge of. A popular item they traded was luxurious purple cloth. This was very…

The student organization I chose to write my reflection about is the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. This fraternity is a part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) and is the Omega Epsilon Chapter at the University of Toledo. Their colors are royal purple and old gold and their national founding date is November 17, 1911. The fraternity also goes by other names like the (Ques or Da Bruhz). Some of the requirements are to have at least 30 credit hours and a GPA of 2.5 or higher. There were…

Septuagint Often referred to as seventy or “LXX”, being its Roman Numeral, the Septuagint was first translated from the Old Testament in approximately 300 B.C.. It was translated at this time as the Old Testament was written in hebrew and Ptolemy Philadelphus, the reigning emperor of Alexandria Egypt, wanted to include the Greek version in the Library of Alexandria. To do this Ptolemy Philadelphus ordered seventy two scholars, made up of six elders from twelve tribes of Israel, to translate…

The history of Greek Colonization is a long story that traces its roots back as early as 1050 BCE where the first Greeks began to colonize Asia Minor and in the span of 500 years the Greeks will have spread themselves from Levant to Iberia and Crimea to Naucratis respectively. This colonization process would play a hand in many of the Greek conflicts both domestically and abroad as well has having a profound effect on the cultural and civil trajectories of the mother cities of Hellas. The…

Another aspect of ancient Greek mythology that thrives in modern-day society is the lessons that the myths taught. The word “μύθος” (mythos) translates to “story” in the English language (Green 197). Due to this, the stories of ancient Greece are called myths, although the ancient Greeks themselves did not believe these tales of gods and goddesses were merely stories. The Although the myths are no longer heeded as warnings against the wraths of gods and goddesses, the myths held truths…

Culture is an important factor that my parents hold highly of and felt that my siblings and I should learn every aspect of it. Growing up, my siblings and I attended Vietnamese classes where we learned how to read and write Vietnamese. Vietnamese is not that hard to learn because the letters are similar to those in the English language, but the difficulties was in the accent marks on the words. A wrong pronunciation of the word meant another word. For example, the Vietnamese word for dad is ba,…

The Greek epic The Iliad by Homer depicts the war shaped customs of Ancient Greece. Throughout the epic, the idea of war is championed by the characters as a form of problem-solving. This form of problem solving involves a social-Darwinian scenario where the strongest survive,which in turn develop honor and heroism for these winners. However, Homer utilizes the Greek’s romance with war as an instrument to criticize the violent practice. A culture formed around constant wars will become a culture…

Ancient Greece; a land of wonders. In this presentation, I will explain the social, political, religious, intellectual, technological, and economical aspects of Ancient Greece. You will learn how the Greeks lived, and what the Greeks did. Learn some of the inventions, philosophers, writers, and historians from Ancient Greece. There is also information about Greek social structure, government, wars, and trade. There is so much to learn about Greece! There were different…

Great Greek Thinkers By: Kelli Floyd The ancient Greeks were remarkably advanced in science, astrology and medicine. They made lots of discoveries, some of which were forgotten about for many years and some discoveries that even the Greeks at the time didn’t believe to be true. Although some of their learning was pulled from the Egyptians, they quickly moved far ahead of them for many reasons. The Greeks were allowed more freedom in thought and experimentation. They also had many schools of…